Defusing Big Brother Fears: Putting Developers Back in Control
6th Sense tooling is in a sensitive space. Allowing others to see what you're doing during the day can make you feel vulnerable. Especially if you don't trust your management. (If that's the case, why are you still there? But that's another post about co-dependency and enabling personalities....)
We've worked very hard to train our customers on the proper use of metrics. Measuring not monitoring. Tracking progress. Burnup charts. Estimation accuracy numbers. Moving past developer optimism ("I know I can make this work!") and to a measure of what's actually done.
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